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The Children's Newspaper, April 13. 1957
JSJATURDAY sees the first of this
year's Wembley Cup Finals,
when the amateurs will provide the
attraction.
Once again Bishop
Auckland will be playing, their
fourth successive Final, and their
sixth since the war. Winners for
the past two years, the NorthEasterners will be all out for a hattrick and their tenth victory in the
Amateur Cup Final. Their opponents on Saturday, Wycombe
Wanderers, won the trophy in
1931, their only triumph in the
Final.
His manager's
voice
JTROM time to time during the past
18 months the promising
young West Ham winger Terry
McDonald has switched on his
tape recorder at home. It was not
music he heard, however, but the
voice of his manager, Mr. Ted
Fenton. One of the first recordings
he made on the new machine was
of Mr. Fenton giving him advice
about certain points in his game.
SPORTS
]yjARGARET EDWARDS, Britain's
Olympic bronze medal backstroke swimmer, is to become a
schoolteacher. She enters the
Maria Grey Training College, at
Twickenham, later this summer.
But this will not interfere with her
swimming, and now that Judy
Grinham has switched to free-style,
Margaret
should
undoubtedly
become our leading back-stroke
swimmer.
ffHls summer will see the 50th
anniversary of the famous Isle
of Man T.T. motor-cycle races. As
many previous winners as possible
will be invited to attend, as well as
riders who took part in that first
meeting 50 years ago. One of the
pioneers who will be there is Mr.
Rem Fowler, of Shirley, near
Birmingham, who rode a 5 h.p.
Norton to victory in the first race
at an average speed of 36.22 m.p.h.
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In the
hammer
circle
In the hammer circle
in more senses than one
is Don Vanhegan seen
h e r e p r a c t i s i n g in
Broomfield Park, Southgate. Don is also treasurer of the association
of hammer t h r o w e r s
known as the Hammer
Circle.
"Y^TILL we ever have seven-ball
overs in our cricket? Keith
Miller thinks it would be a most
suitable arrangement. In Australia, he points out, an eight-ball
over is the rule, and in England
six-ball overs. " W h y not split the
difference and settle on a standard
seven-ball over for both countries?"
P I R I E v. Kuts is the exciting prospect for athletics fans this
August when Great Britain meet
Russia at the White City. Gordon
Pirie will be leaving New Zealand
shortly for business purposes, and
will be here during the summer. H e
is, of course, still eligible to represent Great Britain.
'J'EN
members of the Swansea
Town Colts XI are former
local schoolboy stars.
Nine of
them also played for Wales as
schoolboys, some of them only
last season. With other former
Swansea and Welsh schoolboys in
the first and reserve teams, Swansea Town can be proud of their
local talent.
Young
champion
' J ' w o boxing champions in the
same family is the proud
record of the Waites family of
Croydon, Surrey.
In the recent
Schools A.B.A. championships, 14year-old Chris won the Junior
8 st. 3 lb. title, and his brother
Douglas, a year older, carried off
the Intermediate 8 st. 2 lb. title.
The award for the most stylish
boxer was won by Alan Taylor, of
the Bifrons Secondary School,
Barking, Essex. Twelve-year-old
Alan is the youngest boxer ever
to win this award. He has been
unbeaten for 40 contests.
SPORTING GALLERYD U N C A N EDWARDS
Aged only 20, but with his
international caps already in
doublefigu res, stalwart Duncan
E d w a r d s , of M a n c h e s t e r
United, remains modest. A t
the end of each match he goes
t o Manager Matt Busby for an
opinion on his performance.
Duncan, nominally left-half,
has o c c u p i e d s i x d i f f e r e n t
positions for his club—and
done well in all. H e is t h e
best young natural footballer
in soccer today.
Born at Dudley, h e was
captain of t h e England schoolboys as recently as season
1951-2.
Rejereeing
family
' J ' H E Hansens of Auckland, New
Zealand, are a remarkable
family. Father is a senior soccer
referee, and his three sons are
qualified junior referees. Rodney passed his referee's test at the
age of 15, to become the youngest
official in New Zealand. Then
Nigel, aged 13, took over that
"title," only for 12-year-old Derek
to beat the rest of the family last
year.
^ O M DOLLERY, former captain of
Warwickshire C.C.C., and the
County's senior coach since 1955,
has been appointed to the England
Test Selection Committee. Tom
takes over from Leslie Ames, now
manager of the Kent team. During
his long career, Dollery scored
over 24,000 runs and played for
England four times.
Rugby fam i ly
'J'HE
Vaughan family can be
proud of their record in the
Rugby
game.
Dr.
Geoffrey
Vaughan, ex-Cambridge Blue, of
the Harlequins, is this season's
captain of the R.A.F.; Brian captained the Navy team at one time
and won eight England caps;
Derek played for North Midlands;
and 16-year-old Michael Vaughan
is at Blundells School, and is expected to become as famous as his
elder brothers.
pole vaulters may soon be
using glass-fibre poles instead
of bamboo. A Californian firm
have now completed their experiments with poles of glass-fibre, and
it is expected that the record of
15 feet 7-} inches set up 15 years
ago by Cornelius Warmerdam will
soon be beaten.
J±LL
KHAN recently lost the
British Squash championship
he had held for six years. Aged 44,
he intends to retire now, happy in
the knowledge that other members
of his family will carry on. The
new champion, Hashim's cousin
Roshan;
his younger
brother
Azam; their 17-year-old nephew
Mohibullah; and Hashim's 13year-old son Shariff, now at school
in Somerset, are all likely t o keep
tne British title in the family for
laany years to come.
Supporter
Elaine Worden, who belongs to a
London Rowing Club with the
megaphone through which she
encourages her club crews.
^T
the recent Pakistan table
tennis championships Altaf
Ali and Sayeeda Sultana, brother
and sister, won every title—singles,
mixed doubles, and, with their
partners, the men's and women's
doubles. •
BE THE CHAMP
IN YOUR GANG!
P O R an Association football team
to score eleven goals and then
not win seems incredible, but that
was the experience of two Yorkshire junior clubs on a recent
Saturday. The meeting of Cockburnians and Rastrickians in the
West Riding Old Boys' League
produced an 11—11 draw! These
teams represent the Old Boys of
Cockburn High School, Leeds, and
Rastrick Grammar School, near
Huddersfield.
JJASHIM
H e was 18 when he
received his first full international honour—England v.
Scotland; the youngest England player for SO years. H e
is outstanding even in a
wonder t e a m such as
Manchester United.
SHORTS
A wizard r o c k e t launcher
t u b e w i t h t w o free r o c k e t s
inside every special p a c k e t of
Kellogg-'s Corn F l a k e s . T h e
r o c k e t s , tipped w i t h soft
sponge, h i t t h e t a r g e t w i t h
a m a z i n g a c c u r a c y . Howclever
a r e you? Get y o u r Blowzooka
set now a n d s t a r t shooting 1
down t h e c u t - o u t t o y soldiers
on t h e back of t h e p a c k e t
Hurry! In these
special packets—
for a short time only